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A bewitching night time soundtrack

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

1 hour, 29 minutes

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Sun 26 Oct 202522:00
BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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Music Played

  • Akira Kosemura

    Close Eyes

    • Planetarium.
    • 4AD.
    • 10.

  • Ivor Gurney

    Sleep (5 Elizabethan Songs)

    Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • WARNER.

  • Özgür Önal

    Entangled Dreams [France]

    • Music for Sleep.
    • CITIES & MEMORY.
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations BWV.988 (Aria)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Sebastien Dubé. Music Arranger: Martin Frost. Music Arranger: Sebastien Dubé.
    • SONY.

  • Sven Helbig

    Schlaflied

    Performer: Sven Helbig. Ensemble: Fauré Quartett. Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Kristjan Järvi.
    • DG.

  • Anon.

    Gentle Lullaby

    • Music Box Collection.
    • HOTE IDEAS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    O sleep why dost thou leave me (Semele)

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Núria Rial. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • ERATO.

  • Sarah Nicolls

    Sleep Scene

    • We’re Inside and Outside.
    • Bandcamp.
    • 9.

  • Mieczyslaw Weinberg

    Nocturne

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica.
    • Songs of Fate.
    • ECM.
    • 6.

  • dip in the pool & Morgan Fisher

    Dormir

    • Dip in the Pool.
    • MOON RECORDS.
    • 10.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Dreams [Sni] Op.6

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

  • Valgeir Sigurðsson, Liam Byrne & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson

    Somnoptera

    • Concrete.
    • Bedroom Community.
    • 13.

  • Trad.

    Schlaf, Herzenssoehnchen

    Music Arranger: Carl Maria von Weber. Singer: Rita Streich. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Gaebel.
    • Rita Streich – Folksongs & Lullabies.
    • DG.
    • 24.

  • Leo Chadburn

    Magic Flora of the East Midlands

    • Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator.
    • LIBRARY OF NOTHING RECORDS.
    • 2.

  • Richard Strauss

    Traum durch die Dämmerung (3 Lieder Op.29)

    Singer: Diana Damrau. Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • R. Strauss Lieder.
    • ERATO.
    • 11.

  • Aimless Ohm

    Krorez Bay Berceuse [Albania]

    • Music for Sleep.
    • CITIES & MEMORY.
    • 8.

  • Eartha Kitt & Henri René & His Orchestra

    Lullaby of Birdland

    • Thursday’s Child.
    • RADIO TOWER RECORDS.

  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Berceuse in D flat major

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Good Night.
    • ERATO.

  • Franz Schubert

    Wanderers Nachtlied

    Music Arranger: Franui Musicbanda. Ensemble: Franui Musicbanda.
    • Franui Schubertlieder.
    • COL LEGNO.
    • 4.

  • Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch

    Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby

    • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • MERCURY RECORDS.
    • 10.

  • Colin Stetson

    The Love It Took To Leave You

    • The Love It Took To Leave You.
    • Invada Records.

  • Juliette Lemoine

    Twilight in a City Park

Broadcast

  • Sun 26 Oct 202522:00
    BBC Radio 3 & BBC Radio 3 Unwind

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